Peters backs Town for promotion

Gary Peters today hailed Shrewsbury Town's "tremendous" start to the season - and backed his former club to climb out of the League basement. Gary Peters today hailed Shrewsbury Town's "tremendous" start to the season - and backed his former club to soon climb out of the Football League basement. In his first interview since leaving the club seven months ago, Peters revealed his pleasure at seeing Town lying in League Two's top six under his replacement Paul Simpson after 10 games of the campaign. And he insisted the determination of chairman Roland Wycherley will be the driving force behind the club's desire to climb the divisions. "What Shrewsbury are doing now is tremendous and I'm delighted - Paul is doing a great job," said Peters. "There was quite a few people being put forward for the job at the time. Paul was one of them and he did a magnificent job at Carlisle and had a great track record at Rochdale. Read the full story in today's Shropshire Star.

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